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This is America

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and the second half of the twentieth Jeannette
is a slave not a slave by circum ago

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a choice

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that at the time the face of modern
teenage society is often fast the beat is

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sometimes frantic coax a need to belong
is ever present associations are quickly

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and easily maimed boy meets girl
see it often takes experience

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and maturity to arrive at wise decisions
a friendly Obs stretched hand

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and engaging smile

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and offer it is Second of all more commonly
referred to as a read but to the group.

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It's a means to an end
but it can be the harm.

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After all the twentieth century has run
on sales a bill for extra vitamins a bill

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to go to sleep but build a wake up play
not a pill to make you feel good but

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that small red capsule is a dangerous
drug to be administered by a competent

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physician not by a newly found boyfriend

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but the pressure of the
group the need to belong.

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The desire to try something
new is too great a temptation

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but the effect isn't long lasting
and when the drug wears off

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and the coming down as it's called
takes place you feel let down

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and tired but first wage and
the greater need to belong

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and it isn't long until you try again

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and again you try new things they have not
excess they're called Second all reds

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nembutal or yellows to an all
in female Bob A tall and

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that stimulates the Fed a main dexidrine

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and Benzedrine bennies you begin to lose
track of your friends because now you

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belong to a group group that must move

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and of alle the world of secrecy because
what you are doing is against the law

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but constant fear of apprehension.

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Now you meet like conspirators because
the passing of bills is dangerous

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and must of necessity be secretive
nerves begin to wear thin

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and the fun of everyday living goes and
you begin to wonder what your friends

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and parents think that guilt grows and
as it does the need for something

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that will bring more
relief this spell of fears

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that you yourself have created you
become more dependent on one another

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but your place your own each other's
company becomes less satisfying

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and you depend more and
more on the pills to help.

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Finally the pills are not enough

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and you are ready for the second
act of your three act tragedy.

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You've heard Mike

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and the group talk of talking up a joint
you know it means smoking marijuana.

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Mike is more experienced than
you in the ways of narcotics.

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But until now he has never suggested
that you talk up together.

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But the pills don't give either of you.

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The desired effect any longer

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and any insecurity of your relationship you
feel a need to find some new experience

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to mind using together.

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So a suggestion

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that only a short month ago would have
been repulsive was considered the

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smell and taste are anything but
pleasing it makes you cough

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and your throat becomes dry and hot.

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You feel like you're floating you concentrate
on one object a tree in the distance.

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It's called Fixing as you concentrate
time slows down your poll loose and eight

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that if you dream.

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This is called Tripping your depth perception
is affected if you had to step off a

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curb

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or get out of a car you would probably need
help because the distance might be exaggerated

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on the other hand distance
might seem to the.

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As without all the problems don't disappear
they only temporarily seemed vanish

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and return with jarring force when
the affects of the drugs wear off.

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But

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when you get a knock out excess like starting
a never ending downward tales been from

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thirty thousand feet.

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You become less sure of yourself your
surroundings your friends worlds are more

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frequent with your parents

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and loved ones you try to
convince yourself you're right

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but deep inside you know you're not you
lose your sense of values you think of

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little else but another blow up your
newfound language for smoking marijuana.

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You've completed the second act and
the third act just about to go up.

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You don't know it now but

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when it does it's the beginning of
the end the point of no return.

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It can start in many ways that a party
in the secrecy of a dirty room.

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That's how your third act began at the
top of a crummy staircase on the second

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floor of a sleazy apartment building now
a new character enters your tragedy is

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name is Eric you were Mike

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and going to his place to pick up your
week supply of you didn't like Eric

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but Mike had insisted.

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He'd welded you to his code of secrecy
and forced you to help push the pills.

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So you wouldn't cop out on a user learns
to trust no one not even his best girl you

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sat talking up.

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It didn't give you the kick it used
to Eric like all addicts knew this

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or yes he smoked with you but only
to be sociable until the time came

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when he'd get introduce
you and Mike to heroin.

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I year ago you would have been
revolts to thought of heroin

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but now it's an easy step from
marijuana to heroin up cigarette

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hypodermic needles.

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Even now you're afraid. What will
it be like first you'll get a burn.

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It is a feeling of warmth
was flipped over you

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and then you'll become nauseated
then get desperately sick.

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Finally the retching will subside

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and you will have a sustained feeling of
sensual excitement which will lapse into a

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state of euphoria or wellbeing.

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But it won't last and

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when you come down you will be in the
depths of depression consumed by ACT cancer

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of guilt

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for just one second your conscience pricks
if you see the needle inserted in the

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debt ceiling like wood slipping in

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and mixing with Michael's blood
for a moment you want to say no

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but the will to resist is gone.

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Temptation is ever present the desire to
try something new something more powerful

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is too great heroin being one of the
most insidious drugs known to man.

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It only seems like days until you're
hooked. You're not turned on any longer.

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The free ride is over required to pay for
your fix your tolerance increases the

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need for more drugs increases and
this requires more and more cash.

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Now you're driven to things you would
never have considered here to for.

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By your insatiable need for the
drug your moral fiber has collapsed

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and no crime is beyond your imagination.

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You are an addict

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and your total effort in life is to
obtain money to feed your happened.

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Now you are launched on a full scale
teenage crime wave of your very own

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but with each passing day
your tolerance increases

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and now a fix only helps
to make you appear normal

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and dispel the symptoms of withdrawal
withdrawal one nightmare of the attic.

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You live in constant fear of not having
enough heroin to keep your habits supplied

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when that supply runs low in the first
symptoms begin your sneeze a runny nose

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and you can't get another fix you know
you're about to begin. Living hell.

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First you're burning up then
you're freezing then the cramps

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and pains begin each nerve is laid bare

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and all your senses are magnified
your whole being is like one giant

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and exposed to every outside stimulus this
period of withdraw all can go on for a

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week before the pain subsides

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and your senses come back to something
approaching normal and for this you steal

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and live a life of degradation and
crime but in your thirst for money.

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You become careless and Mike is caught.

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Now you are on your own

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and you must support your habit in the
best way you can you live in a jungle of

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fear you are forced to deal with Eric
alone Mike is no longer there to help.

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Eric only last night uni and tell
you to get money money money

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and more money you are not prepared to take
a job besides no job would pay the kind

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of money you now need. You've got
yourself a fifty dollar a day habit.

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You can't support that slinging.

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So you turn to the only thing you can

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that will bring your kind of money if
you become a call girl you support

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that fifty dollar a day habit

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but not for long because your looks begin
to disintegrate your clients will no

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longer pay your price you
go from call girl to street

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then on your twentieth birthday you picked
up for soliciting Michael's age twenty

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white Caucasian drug addict twenty a
century slave self-styled she will suffer

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through withdrawal be sentenced
for prostitution released

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and returned to the habit
again lost to society.

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She will continue her hopeless degrading
existence until she escapes and

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that today tomorrow maybe not for years.